Organization:Stanford Technology Ventures Program

Overview

The Stanford Technology Ventures Program Entrepreneurship corner is a  free online archive of entrepreneurship resources for teaching and learning.The Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) is the entrepreneurship education and research center located within the School of Engineering at Stanford University. The center is hosted by the department of Management Science and Engineering. The purpose of the center is to accelerate high-technology entrepreneurship research and education for engineers and scientists worldwide. STVP supports academic research on high-technology entrepreneurship and teaches a wide range of courses to science and engineering students on campus. Outreach programs include annual conferences, campus-wide collaboration, and dissemination of teaching content through the Entrepreneurship Corner website. 

Purpose

The purpose of the project is to support and encourage faculty around the world who teach entrepreneurship to future scientists, engineers, managers, and others.

The mission of the project is to support and encourage faculty around the world who teach entrepreneurship to scientists and engineers. The design of the archive is based on feedback from entrepreneurship educators regarding the challenges faced when teaching entrepreneurship to students of all majors and disciplines (e.g., engineers and scientists). 

The project has three major efforts:

• To encourage faculty to think about how entrepreneurship should be taught to all students.
• To prepare educational resources from the high-technology industry for access and reuse by others.
• To develop an archive of digital resources, and thereby provide access to a network of resources for entrepreneurship educators.

Distinct Differences From Other Offerings

This program offers connection to Stanford's resources and pooled resources for entrepreneurship education resources. These resources are pooled by faculty belonging to the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Also offered are teaching workshops on entrepeneurship education.

•  Accel Roundtables on Entrepreneurship Education (REE) http://stvp.stanford.edu/images/about/out.gif
  Description: Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) hosts four annual conferences for entrepreneurship educators. These conferences are called Roundtables on Entrepreneurship Education (REE). They are designed to stimulate communication and collaboration between business, science, and engineering faculty who teach high-technology entrepreneurship in universities around the world.
•  Harvard Business School Publishing Programs http://stvp.stanford.edu/images/about/out.gif
  Description: For a number of years Harvard Business School Publishing has offered programs to help develop the next generation of case teaching faculty. Workshop titles include: The Art and Craft of Discussion Leadership and The Art and Craft of Case Instruction. Please see website for a schedule of upcoming conferences.
•  The Experiential Classroom: Helping Produce Great Teachers of 
  Entrepreneurship http://stvp.stanford.edu/images/about/out.gif
  The Experiential Classroom is a rigorous three-day clinic designed to help faculty who are new to the teaching of entrepreneurship. The clinic is delivered by some of the top teachers in the country. Our focus is the core content of an entrepreneurship course, and the use of entrepreneurship cases, business plans, consulting projects, entrepreneurial audits, simulations, field assignments and related teaching tools to convey that content.
•  Price-Babson College Fellows Program: Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE) http://stvp.stanford.edu/images/about/out.gif
  Description: At the Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE), Price-Babson faculty and fellows are encouraged to identify, plan, and personalize their own strategy for entry or reentry in academia; and improve as teachers, learners, researchers, colleagues, and entrepreneurs. Participants explore the entrepreneurial process, the "art and craft" of teaching and learning entrepreneurship, and identify and explore new content, programs, and materials.
•  Babson-Olin Symposium for Engineering Entrepreneurship Educators (SyE3) http://stvp.stanford.edu/images/about/out.gif
  Description: Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) hosts four annual conferences for entrepreneurship educators. These conferences are called Roundtables on Babson-Olin SyE3 educates engineering educators about how to teach and apply entrepreneurship theory and practice as an integral part of engineering education. Babson-Olin SyE3 Alumni develop engineering graduates who not only have innovative ideas, but who can successfully transform their innovations into the products, systems, services, and companies that drive economic growth.

Impact Achieved For Students and Campus

• Bottom line: Venture for America is a strong training program for graduating students who want to get into business creation and also helps revitalize our economy. Todays VFA partnerships are over 50% non-technical, so it does not limit any candidates from applying (in some ways, the fellowship seeks to open doors particularly for these students).  Therefore, Venture for America's resources would be best used on a campus looking to: (a) give benevolent entrepreneurial students a new outlet for post-graduation plans, (b) create a role-model/success story, (c) build support for this lifestyle as a career path.
• By advertising Venture for America as a prestigious scholarship/fellows program, a campus ambassador could build a long-term vision in students from varying degree paths and eventually place high achieving students in the program. 

Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus

If you are a faculty and staff person visiting from another institution,

• Attend the free Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lecture when visiting our campus
• Attend a Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education (REE) Conference
• Download ECorner video clips or podcasts as a part of your curriculum or embed them into your presentations

If you are researcher,

• Attend a Research Seminar on the Stanford University Campus
• Watch videos from esteemed researchers in our research section

If you are an entrepreneur, investor, other business professional, or policy maker,

• Sponsor STVP’s work or donate prizes for the Global Innovation Tournament
• Attend the free Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lecture when visiting our campus
• Mentor or employ a current Mayfield Fellow or alumni
• Attend the AlwaysOn conference at Stanford University
• Attend the AEA Executive Institute
• Attend courses through the SCPD

Contact Information

Mailing Address:

Stanford Technology Ventures Program
Huang Engineering Center, Suite 003
MC 4026
475 Via Ortega
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4121

Co-Director Tom Byers tbyers@stanford.edu  Phone: (650) 725-8271	Co-Director Kathleen Eisenhardt kme@stanford.edu  Phone: (650) 723-1887	Executive Director Tina Seelig tseelig@stanford.edu  Phone: (650) 725-1627
Associate Director Forrest Glick fglick@stanford.edu  Phone: (650) 723-4371	Program Coordinator Nikkie Salgado nikkie@stanford.edu  Phone: (650) 723-2164	Multimedia Developer Eli Shell eshell@stanford.edu  Phone: (650) 723-2164
Content & Communications Editor Matt Harvey mtharvey@stanford.edu  Phone: (650) 723-6715	Manager of International Partnerships Rebecca Edwards rebecca_edwards@stanford.edu Phone: (650) 723-2164	Entrepreneurship Concierge Angela Hayward ahayward@stanford.edu Phone: (650) 704-3129